social networks
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Twitter Tests Easier Way to Report Abusive Tweets
Twitter is testing a new way of allowing users to report tweets that potentially break the social media platform’s rules. And it’s frankly surprising that it took the company this long to try it out.
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Online Troll Convinced Instagram That Its Top Executive Was Dead
Instagram and its top executive, Adam Mosseri, were probably both relieved to learn recently that Mosseri is still alive — both in the real world and the digital one.
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Researchers Produce Obvious Study on Dunking Because They’re Nerds
A new report out from the University of Cambridge confirmed what many of us have known for years: being a contrarian arsehole on social media is a great way to get people clicking on your posts.
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Leak of a Reported 500 Million Profiles Actually Very Boring, LinkedIn Assures Users
Less than a week after personal information from a half-billion scraped Facebook profiles were leaked to the digital underworld, the world’s largest professional network seems to have suffered a similar fate. It would appear that, like Facebook, approximately 500 million scraped LinkedIn profiles are now being sold on the dark web to the highest bidder.